Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 283A · 12 active provisions
For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Nutritionally adequate meal” means a lunch or breakfast which meets the guidelines established by the department of education. 2. “School” means a public school of high school grade or under. 3. “School board” means a board of school directors…
1. School boards may use gifts, funds disbursed to them under the provisions of this chapter, funds received from sale of school breakfasts or lunches, and any other funds legally available for the purpose of operating a school breakfast or lunch program. 2. A school district shall operate or provide for the operation…
The director of the department of education shall accept and direct the disbursement of funds appropriated by any Act of Congress and appropriated to the state of Iowa for use in connection with school breakfast or lunch programs. The director shall deposit the funds with the treasurer of the state of Iowa, who shall m…
The director of the department of education may enter into agreements with any agency of the federal government, with any school board, or with any other agency or person, adopt rules, employ personnel, and take other action as the director may deem necessary to provide for the establishment, maintenance, operation, an…
The director of the department of education shall adopt rules for the keeping of accounts and records and the making of reports by or under the supervision of school boards. The accounts and records shall at all times be available for inspection and audit by authorized officials and shall be preserved for such period o…
The provisions of the federal National School Lunch Act and the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966, 42 U.S.C. §1751 – 1785, and the benefit of all funds appropriated under the Acts, are accepted by the state of Iowa.
Boards of directors of school corporations may authorize the use by senior citizen organizations of school meal facilities subject to reasonable rules and regulations of the board. Such use shall not interfere with the use of the facilities for public school purposes. The board may charge for such use an amount not to…
School districts may purchase, erect, or otherwise acquire a building for use as a school meal facility, and equip a building for that use, and pay for the acquisition or equipping from funds available in the physical plant and equipment levy fund, subject to the terms of section 298.2.
The authorities in charge of nonpublic schools may operate or provide for the operation of school breakfast or lunch programs in schools under their jurisdiction and may use funds appropriated to them by the general assembly, gifts, funds received from sale of school breakfasts or lunches under such programs, and any o…
1. For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “school” includes a school district, a school district attendance center, or an accredited nonpublic school. 2. A school shall provide notice, at least twice annually, to the parents or guardians of all enrolled students regarding the availability…
The department of education, and school boards, shall establish policies to prevent the purchase of a food product that is any of the following: 1. Misbranded as a meat product as prohibited in chapter 137E. 2. A cultivated-protein food product as defined in section 137E.1.
The department of education, and school boards, shall establish policies to prevent the purchase of a food product that is misbranded as an egg product as prohibited in chapter 137A.